Projects that open the water

Erasmus+ Sport · Capacity Building · 2023–2024

Mermaids for Inclusion

Finswimming as a tool for social inclusion in the Western Balkans.

Coordinated by Finswimming Team Komet (Zagreb, Croatia) with partners from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BRAVO), Kosovo (KSU Otrila) and Greece (Akadimos), the project introduced finswimming to swimming clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, with a focus on girls and women, people with disabilities and young people with fewer opportunities.

• Mermaids Handbook and lesson plans for coaches, translated into the partner languages;
• an open online training platform: mermaids-training.eu;
• finswimming presentations and pool sessions in Kosovo (Pejë, January 2024; Prishtina, April 2024);
• a final multiplier sport event in Sarajevo (17 November 2024): 68 athletes from 10 clubs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Croatia and Australia, more than half of them women, including 6 swimmers with disabilities.

Project 101093720, co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

Erasmus+ Sport · Small Collaborative Partnership · 2024–2025

WIN – What Women Need

Sport against isolation and gender-based violence.

The pandemic left many women more isolated and more burdened at home. WIN brought them back to sport and to each other, working with sports clubs, social services and associations. Coordinated by ASI Pesaro Urbino (Italy), with La Macina Terre Alte (Italy), Iniciativa Internacional Joven (Spain) and Finswimming Team Novi Jelkovec (Croatia).

• video interviews and podcasts with women's stories of resilience, in four languages with English subtitles;
• the WIN app and a team-building residential camp;
• European Week of Sport events: in Zagreb, women swimmers joined our #BeActive sessions at the pool;
• final conference at the University of Málaga, September 2025.

Project 101134247, co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA.

Erasmus+ Sport · Small Collaborative Partnership · 2021–2022

SPOT – Sportily Together

Integrated sport for a social future: sport clubs and social organisations learning from each other.

Four partners from Italy, Spain, Slovenia and Croatia – the social cooperative La Macina Terre Alte (coordinator), Universitario Bilbao Rugby, Akademija Rudi Hiti and Finswimming Team Komet – built local networks of clubs, schools, NGOs and public services around inclusive sport, and compared what works in each country.

• local "observatories" bringing sport and social actors around one table in each partner city;
• a collection of good practices and seminars on inclusive sport, from inclusive rugby in Bilbao to rowing and ice hockey in Bled;
• European Week of Sport events in all four countries;
• 441 participants, 54 of them people with disabilities.

Komet hosted the project meeting in Zagreb (February 2022), a seminar at Maksimir and a European Week of Sport event, and linked the project to its finswimming work in Tanzania with a joint Zagreb–Dar es Salaam seminar (October 2022).

Project 622994-EPP-1-2020-1-IT-SPO-SSCP, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Erasmus+ Sport · Small Collaborative Partnership · 2018–2019

Aurora – Sport. School. Life.

Where it all started: Komet's first Erasmus+ project, with Komet as coordinator.

Focused on dual careers and non-formal education, four European sport clubs worked together to train athletes and club members in what a club needs to grow and last: management, training and nutrition, and the principles of good governance in sport.

• introductory workshops in each partner country;
• e-learning as the core of the programme, built bottom-up and learning by doing;
• a traineeship in a sport organisation;
• a web platform with e-learning materials and practical tools for running a club.

Komet went on to coordinate Aurora Adriatic (2021–2022). The Aurora logo also inspired Komet's own.

The Aurora logo and the Komet logo it inspired.